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Washington news with a Texas accentFri, 13 Feb 2015 22:20:13 +0000en-UShourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.3Kay Bailey Hutchison seeks to slow down Senate cybersecurity billhttp://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2012/02/kay-bailey-hutchison-lieberman-cybersecurity/
http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2012/02/kay-bailey-hutchison-lieberman-cybersecurity/#commentsSat, 18 Feb 2012 18:49:50 +0000http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/?p=29854Cybersecurity legislation working its way through the Senate would help protect the nation's private-sector infrastructure from cyberattacks. But U.S. manufacturers worry about the additional costs they would be required to bear to secure critical infrastructure, and Republican senators including Texas' Kay Bailey Hutchison are trying to slow it down.]]>http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2012/02/kay-bailey-hutchison-lieberman-cybersecurity/feed/0Michael McCaul’s cybersecurity bill moves forwardhttp://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2011/07/michael-mccauls-cybersecurity-bill-moves-forward-despite-criticism-that-it-is-outdated/
http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2011/07/michael-mccauls-cybersecurity-bill-moves-forward-despite-criticism-that-it-is-outdated/#commentsThu, 21 Jul 2011 21:10:33 +0000http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/?p=16503Rep. Michael McCaul's bill to protect American cybersystems from hacker attacks was approved by a House committee today. "We are not prepared to meet the threats of the 21st century," McCaul said.
The committee approved the Austin Republican's proposal despite complaints from fellow Texan Eddie Bernice Johnson that the bill's wording is outdated.
At a Thursday House Committee on Science, Space and Technology meeting to markup the legislation, Johnson said she thinks the bill, which remains largely unchanged from the 111th Congress – when it was introduced and passed by the House but was not introduced in the Senate – fails to meet the nation's current cybersecurity needs, which she said have changed rapidly in the past two years.
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